Section of a well preserved cross section of fossilised (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Celery--Top Pine) log collected from Oligocene deposits in Bacchus Marsh Brown Coal Mine, early 1963. Newspaper clippings regarding the now extinct Celery-Top Pine, estimated to be over 30 million years old. Specimen donated by W. Barawanath, September 1964, polished by Eyre Swarbreck, November 1964.

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